And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham.

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins ¹  when Melchizedek met him.

Isaac reopened ¹  the wells that had been dug ²  back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up ³  after Abraham died. Isaac ⁴  gave these wells ⁵  the same names his father had given them. ⁶ 

May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham ¹  so that you may possess the land ²  God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.” ³ 

and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Therefore produce ¹  fruit ²  that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say ³  to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ ⁴  For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! ⁵ 

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord ¹  (although I am but dust and ashes), ² 

Abraham got up early in the morning and went ¹  to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, ¹  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ² 

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ¹  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ² 

But Sarah noticed ¹  the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking. ² 

But Abraham lodged a complaint ¹  against Abimelech concerning a well ²  that Abimelech’s servants had seized. ³ 

Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty. ¹ 

Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these ¹  seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

(Now ¹  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Abraham’s servant ¹  ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.

O children ¹  of Abraham, ²  God’s ³  servant, you descendants ⁴  of Jacob, God’s ⁵  chosen ones!

This is the record of the genealogy ¹  of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Abraham was the father ¹  of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,